River Gallery
Fine Art
“Study for Ascendaura, 1984” — Michael Loew (1907 – 1985)
Colored pencil on paper, 21″ x 18.38″ sight size, signed lower right, dated 1984.
In addition to the Art Students League, Loew studied with Hans Hoffman, and in Paris at the Academie Scandinave. Then, a decade later, he returned to Paris for further study, this time with Ferdinand Leger at the Atelier Leger. read more»
“Ceremonial in Yellows and Blues, 1965” — Michael Loew (1907 – 1985)
Oil on masonite, 15.75″ x 17.25″, signed lower right.
In addition to the Art Students League, Loew studied with Hans Hoffman, and in Paris at the Academie Scandinave. Then, a decade later, he returned to Paris for further study, this time with Ferdinand Leger at the Atelier Leger. read more»
“Island Inn in Fog” — Murray Hantman (1904 – 1999)
Oil on Canvas, 17″ x 30″, signed lower right, dated 1952.
Hantman entered the Art Students League in 1928, where he studied with Thomas Hart Benton and Jan Matulka. He assisted Benton with the murals for the New School for Social Research in New York and worked on WPA projects through the 1930s. read more»
“Ausable II” — Joseph Fiore (1925-2008)
Oil on canvas, 20″ x 26″, signed lower left.
Born in 1925, Fiore studied and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. He later taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, Maryland College of Art, and the National Academy of Design.
At Black Mountain College, Fiore studied with Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, and Jean Varda. He belonged to the 10th Street Art Scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of galleries that showed his paintings alongside work by Alex Katz, Lois Dodd, Bernard Langlais, and others.
Fiore held solo exhibitions in New York at Staempfli Gallery (reviewed by Fairfield Porter), Schoelkopf Gallery, and Fischbach Gallery, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, and the National Academy, among others.
Fiore, a full member of the National Academy of Design, received the Andrew Carnegie Prize for Painting from the Academy in 2002, and the Adolph and Clara Olbrig Prize in 2003.
River Gallery represented Fiore’s work until his death in 2008, and continues to do so by arrangement with the Falcon Foundation.
